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<td class="v">22:1</td>
<td>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</td>
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<td class="v">22:2</td>
<td>Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?</td>
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<td class="v">22:3</td>
<td>Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?</td>
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<td class="v">22:4</td>
<td>Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?</td>
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<td class="v">22:5</td>
<td>Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?</td>
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<td class="v">22:6</td>
<td>For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.</td>
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<td class="v">22:7</td>
<td>Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.</td>
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<td class="v">22:8</td>
<td>But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.</td>
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<td class="v">22:9</td>
<td>Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.</td>
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<td class="v">22:10</td>
<td>Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;</td>
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<td class="v">22:11</td>
<td>Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.</td>
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<td class="v">22:12</td>
<td>Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!</td>
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<td class="v">22:13</td>
<td>And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?</td>
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<td class="v">22:14</td>
<td>Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.</td>
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<td class="v">22:15</td>
<td>Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?</td>
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<td class="v">22:16</td>
<td>Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:</td>
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<td class="v">22:17</td>
<td>Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?</td>
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<td class="v">22:18</td>
<td>Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</td>
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<td class="v">22:19</td>
<td>The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.</td>
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<td class="v">22:20</td>
<td>Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.</td>
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<td class="v">22:21</td>
<td>Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.</td>
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<td class="v">22:22</td>
<td>Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.</td>
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<td class="v">22:23</td>
<td>If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</td>
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<td class="v">22:24</td>
<td>Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.</td>
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<td class="v">22:25</td>
<td>Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.</td>
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<td class="v">22:26</td>
<td>For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.</td>
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<td class="v">22:27</td>
<td>Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.</td>
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<td class="v">22:28</td>
<td>Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.</td>
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<td class="v">22:29</td>
<td>When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.</td>
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<td class="v">22:30</td>
<td>He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</td>
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